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Tim Focas

Tim Focas

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Hiring Rishi Sunak is an ingenious move from Goldman Sachs

Hiring Rishi Sunak is an ingenious move from Goldman Sachs

Rishi Sunak’s Westminster to Wall St move is not a case of “jobs for the boys”, it’s a calculated, strategic hire by a firm that understands...

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Tim Focas

The City needs a Thatcher-style revolution

13th October 1984: British Conservative prime minister Margaret Hilda Thatcher, addressing the Tory Party Conference in Brighton, following the...

19.06.2025 9

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The Fed shouldn’t hit back at Trump, just talk louder

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – APRIL 04: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW)...

25.04.2025 6

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Britain should ignore Trump’s tariffs and unleash unilateral free trade

A snap poll by the BCC suggests that around a third of businesses exposed to tariffs are planning to increase their prices due to Trump’s tariffs. ...

09.04.2025 2

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15 years on from The Big Short, securitisation is back

The lender announced the sale of Close Brothers Asset Management last year The Big Short hit bookshelves 15 years ago, but the era of securitisation...

08.03.2025 20

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The FCA’s bond market reforms don’t go far enough

The FCAs plans to make it easier for companies to issue smaller bonds are a step in the right direction, but if the UK truly wants to unlock its...

08.02.2025 4

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Forget Reeves’ CV – there’s a bigger transparency problem in monetary policy

The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has said that errors in the survey are a “big problem”. The real discussion shouldn’t be about...

28.11.2024 10

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Americans do it better (investing, that is)

British companies are often accountable to passive shareholders, such as pension funds, leading to risk aversion and short-termism. The US invests...

09.10.2024 4

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Tim Focas

Fiscal prudence? The iron chancellor doth protest too much

Rachel Reeves has styled herself as an “iron chancellor”, promising fiscal constraint and discipline Rachel Reeves’ decision to expand the...

24.07.2024 1

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